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Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Thu 18 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Meston (XB - Excepted Hereditary) These amendments should be accepted. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) They should be listened to, and what they need and want should be evaluated. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) All sorts of things happen today that are actively encouraged to be done to the child in a way that should - Speech Link
4: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) the child, but currently there seems to be no satisfactory way to hold Microsoft to account for this.A - Speech Link
5: Lord Brady of Altrincham (Con - Life peer) These harms were always going to be significant, but the evidence since the end of the Covid restrictions - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Child Poverty Strategy (Removal of Two Child Limit)
1st reading - Tue 16 Sep 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) What more progressive policy could there be than drastically cutting child poverty overnight? - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Living Standards: East of England - Wed 03 Sep 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Clive Lewis (Lab - Norwich South) Child poverty levels run at one in three in Norwich once housing costs are factored in and, although - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) It should never be the case that working people are in poverty. - Speech Link
3: Clive Lewis (Lab - Norwich South) We extend support, but keep the two-child cap that pushes hundreds of thousands of children into poverty - Speech Link
4: Emma Reynolds (Lab - Wycombe) Those programmes can and should be key tools for driving growth across the UK, including the east of - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 01 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Alison McGovern (Lab - Birkenhead) The unemployment rate is 4.7%—well below the historic high of 11.9% in 1984—but no one should ever be - Speech Link
2: Alison McGovern (Lab - Birkenhead) why reductions in economic inactivity and improvements in employment will be part of our child poverty - Speech Link
3: Baggy Shanker (LAB - Derby South) of child food poverty, so that parents are not left struggling to put tea on the table? - Speech Link
4: Sarah Hall (LAB - Warrington South) No child should have to sit in a classroom hungry; every child deserves a full stomach and a fair chance - Speech Link
5: Liz Kendall (Lab - Leicester West) Our child poverty strategy will be published in the autumn. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sir David Amess Summer Adjournment - Tue 22 Jul 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) held to account, and what will be done to ensure that there is no repeat. - Speech Link
2: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) Many other parents were going to be forced to give up work, simply to look after their kids. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Hall (LAB - Warrington South) child starts the day hungry. - Speech Link
4: James MacCleary (LD - Lewes) They should not have to look back wistfully; they should be able to return to it. - Speech Link
5: Josh Newbury (Lab - Cannock Chase) It should not be anybody’s reality in a country as wealthy as ours.The NHS currently offers no treatment - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) Giving every child the best possible start in life should be a driving mission of every Government. - Speech Link
2: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) Hungry children cannot learn, so together these measures will ensure that no child has to start the school - Speech Link
3: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) That is an intolerable disgrace.We expect the Government’s child poverty strategy to be ambitious and - Speech Link
4: Josh Newbury (Lab - Cannock Chase) child should go hungry into their classroom.By investing in family hubs where families in Cannock Chase - Speech Link
5: Gareth Snell (LAB - Stoke-on-Trent Central) Whether we call it furniture poverty, food poverty or child poverty—whatever we call it—it is poverty - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Taxes - Tue 15 Jul 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) Gentleman wish to differ slightly with those on his Front Bench, who have said there should be no new - Speech Link
2: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus and Perthshire Glens) It means enduring child poverty and flatlining growth, no matter who is in charge of the Treasury in - Speech Link
3: Jeevun Sandher (Lab - Loughborough) In reality, at the end of that 14 years, no one did well. - Speech Link
4: Richard Fuller (Con - North Bedfordshire) No wonder people feel so let down.But let us be fair: some Labour Back Benchers are going back with a - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Welfare Spending - Tue 15 Jul 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Alison McGovern (Lab - Birkenhead) I hope not.Nobody in this country should be begging—no child should face that indignity. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Flynn (SNP - Aberdeen South) Does she believe that the cap should be scrapped—yes or no? - Speech Link
3: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) poverty taskforce is going to be critical. - Speech Link
4: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) be commended as a way of tackling child poverty? - Speech Link
5: Caroline Voaden (LD - South Devon) in 2023, facing daily challenges that no child should have to endure. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Educational Attainment of Boys - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Sam Rushworth (Lab - Bishop Auckland) By the end of reception, just 60.7% of boys are assessed to be “school-ready”, compared with 75% of girls - Speech Link
2: Elsie Blundell (Lab - Heywood and Middleton North) I believe that the Government should be mandated to consider class when policy proposals relating to - Speech Link
3: Josh Newbury (Lab - Cannock Chase) since first overtaking those of men in the mid-’90s should absolutely be welcomed. - Speech Link
4: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) It goes without saying that our education system should enable every child to flourish, no matter their - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Children’s Health - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Simon Opher (Lab - Stroud) to bring in a watershed for junk food advertising—it was going to be in October, but it is now promised - Speech Link
2: Sarah Hall (LAB - Warrington South) cracks.If we are serious about giving every child a fair start, tackling poverty must be at the front - Speech Link
3: Jess Asato (Lab - Lowestoft) That record will be built on by this Government’s forthcoming child poverty strategy, which I hope will - Speech Link
4: Alison Bennett (LD - Mid Sussex) child should go hungry at school—ever.When it comes to mental health, we would transform the system - Speech Link
5: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) I am also a member of the child poverty taskforce, and the strategy on this will be published later this - Speech Link